KEY MESSAGE: Funded by the National Science Foundation,Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy is designed to help make large lecture-format courses more interactive with easy-to-implement activities that can be integrated into existing course structures.

The Second Edition of the Lecture-Tutorials for Introductory Astronomy contains nine new activities that focus on planetary science, system related topics, and the interactions of Light and matter.

These new activities have been created using the same rigorous development cycle that was used for the highly successful first edition.

The Night Sky: Position, Motion, Seasonal Stars, Solar vs.

Sidereal Day, Ecliptic, Star Charts.

Fundamentals of Astronomy: Kepler’s 2nd Law, Kepler’s 3rd Law, Newton’s Laws and Gravity, Apparent and Absolute Magnitudes of Stars, The Parse, Parallax and Distance, Spectroscopic Parallax.

Nature of Light in Astronomy: The Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum of Light, Telescopes and Earth’s Atmosphere, Luminosity, Temperature and Size, Blackbody Radiation, Types of Spectra, Light and Atoms, Analyzing Spectra, Doppler Shift.

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Authors: Edward E. Prather, Tim Slater, Jeff Adams, Gina Brissenden, CAPER

Publisher: Benjamin Cummings

Date: Aug. 1, 2007

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